1st Edition
Public Lives, Private Virtues Images of American Revolutionary War Heroes, 1782-1832
By Christopher Harris
Copyright 2000
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Public Lives, Private Virtues surveys portraits of American Revolutionary heroes in books, magazines, and school texts from 1782 to 1832 and relates these sketches to cultural changes of the period. Faced with rapid and sometimes unsettling change, historians, biographers, and editors of period offered their readers narrative and visual portraits of heroes, hoping to promote classical civic... Read more
List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1: Bright Examples: Biographies of Revolutionary Heroes. Chapter 2: Domestick Subjects: Revolutionary Heroes in American Magazines. Chapter 3: Forming Republican Citizens: Schoolbook Accounts of Revolutionary Heroes. Chapter 4: Portraits of Virtue and the Advent of Realism; Notes; Illustrations;Index
Biography
Christopher Harris
